How many hands / month can higher-volume players handle??

[MicroBob]

What about the famous (or is that 'infamous'?) Brian who regularly plays 100k hands or more a month?


I played 20k hands in 4 very long days on only 4 tables when I was in the raked-hands marathon in Feb for the PPM cruise.
It was REALLY freaking tough.
also - to get enough party points I had to play 10/20 6-max where I wasn't entirely comfortable.
I finished -30BB's for the stretch (was up as high as 160BB's but fatigue clobbered me).

[DemonDeac]

read a book

[Nightwish]

This is insane. My goal is 6,000 hands/week, and I think I'm playing more than many pros here.

[Peter_rus]

Yeah, im back to 3-tabling SH (usually 2 30/60 + 1 15/30) games a while ago as my 30/60 full tables results has too small bb/100 after fair amount of hands. It's seems good for now, though ev isn't big also, so im searching for leaks.

[Guthrie]

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read a book

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while listening to classical music.

[fimbulwinter]

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Any full-time players here want to chime in with what they average / month? (hands played, that is)

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I'm attempting to pull 50K this month. I'm roughly on schedule.

fim

[goodguy_1]

I try and play 12K-14K hands a week and I almost always do 42K-52k hands a month.

[goodguy_1]

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What about the famous (or is that 'infamous'?) Brian who regularly plays 100k hands or more a month?


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A contact told me Brian faded away.. dont know if that is right or not. I chatted with him via PM initially when he was just getting set up with rakeback to 12-20 table $10-20 Full or whatever it was....havent heard from him since...

[goodguy_1]

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Don't use that time just to play poker. You'll get burned out and start to hate it, which will then make your days really suck. Play whatever you normally do, then use the rest of the day to learn stuff.


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sounds good...I'm just starting to read a huge collection of poker books. 4 down about 35 to go hopefully be done in next 2-3 months ..I'm trying to read/re-read 1-2 books a day right now.

[BigBaitsim (milo)]

12-18K hands/month, but I've got a day job, wife and kids.

Fortunately for me, I only sleep about 4 hours a night.